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I'll put in another vote for Vim, but I'm biased, as I'm a systems guy by trade. Losing my skills with vim would be death, because it's often the only working
by donw 18y ago
I'll put in another vote for Vim, but I'm biased, as I'm a systems guy by trade. Losing my skills with vim would be death, because it's often the only working editor on a truly hosed machine.
- Niten 18y agoNope, that would be ed :) I had to use ed to rescue an OpenBSD VPN endpoint a year or so ago.
- donw 18y agoPoint. I've had to use ed as well, but generally speaking, in all but the most dire of circumstances, vi will run -- I think on Solaris that vi is still statically linked. Even so, ed works very simmilarly to vi (including movement, search, save, and so on), so it's a lot easier to fix something with ed if you're a vi user. :)
- hs 18y agoseconded, there's no vi in openbsd install image i had to use ed during installation to change the fstab (from sd0a to wd0a) of a 2.5" hdd mounted on usb important step coz o/w rebooting from sd0a 2.5" ide put me to single user w/ read-only fs (too late for ed)